Rumor: Samsung will release Exynos soc with 5g support early next year

Samsung would like to release an Exynos soc with support for 5g next year. This is reported by news site BusinessKorea. The manufacturer is said to have shown a prototype of the modem for that soc at CES electronics fair last week.

The modem should be ready in the second half of this fall, after which the soc should appear in devices early next year, BusinessKorea reports. It is most obvious that a possible Galaxy S10 should get such a soc. Samsung invariably stops the soc with the latest modem in its Galaxy S smartphone of that year.

The modem would support techniques from Release 15 of the 3GPP standard, the first release of 5g. In addition, the modem could theoretically achieve maximum speeds of 5GBit/s, considerably higher than the 1.2Gbit/s that the latest modems in smartphone socs can handle. In addition, the modem reportedly supports current lower frequencies for mobile networks and so-called mmWave networks at, for example, 28GHz or 39GHz. The 5g standard is a patchwork of techniques and frequencies.

Samsung has been producing its own modems for Exynos-socs for a few years now. In addition to Samsung, Qualcomm, Intel and Huawei are also developing modems with 5G support. Qualcomm already showed a prototype of its X50 modem with 5g on board.

Looking back: video report on 5g from Mobile World Congress in February last year